BREAKING NEWS: General Matiss calls out Russia for interfering in elections. Seems

[mfcorey1]

to break from SCROTUS position. Update coming on CNN.

[jehop61]

1. Huh?

Just watched it and breaking news was about Mattis saying we won't aligh with Russia militarily in mid-east. Where did you see this?

[crazylikafox]

3. It was just on CNN

[Raine1967]

6. here:

Link to tweet

[jehop61]

7. Thanks

Must be a time difference thing. Hope there's at least one cooler head around there.

[NewJeffCT]

12. Seems like his tenure may be a short one

at the White House

[atreides1]

14. Mattis is a lying sack of shit

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/tillerson-russia-china-g20/index.html


Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford meet face to face with their Russian counterparts Thursday, as the Trump administration evaluates the future direction of US-Russian relations.

[radical noodle]

25. I don't think he's lying

I think this is a skirmish between Defense and State. Who is in charge is anyone's guess.

[watoos]

26. I watched Chris Hayes a couple days ago

he had Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on who is a straight shooting truth teller. Wilkerson vouched for Mattis and said that he would resign before he carried out an idiotic Trump order. Mattis is certainly saying something in opposition to Trump but it isn't the first time that Trump's people weren't on the same page.
I don't think Mattis can be bought, I think what you see is what you get with him, but I could be wrong.

[DK504]

31. That's where I heard that!!!

I'm hoping Mad Dog Mattis stays with his oath to the Constitution and doesn't care if they fire him for speaking the truth.

[mountain grammy]

34. I've heard Col Wilkerson speak about Mattis

and it's the only reason I have any kind of respect for anyone trump would choose.

[grantcart]

36. That's what I thought until I saw Mattis helping Trump find

where he should sign the Muslim ban and then clapping like a school boy afterwards. We will wait and see on Mattis.

[itcfish]

32. Deflecting

Lip service

[old guy]

40. Agree.

Mattis is not a friend.

[mac56]

41. Covering his own ass.

[CajunBlazer]

39. I'm getting a "media cannot be played" error message...

....on this and most of the videos on Tweets. Can anyone tell me on what video format player do I need to download on my PC to play this stuff?

[Raine1967]

42. I wish I could answer you question.

I think it's flash?

It just plays for me -- I hope someone else can answer that, CajunBlazer.

[Zoonart]

2. Lets see

how long it takes before the good General is shown the door. President Bannnon wants boots on the ground in Syria.

[Orrex]

8. Well, Spicer tells us that Flynn was let go due to a breach of Trump trust

Surely General Mattis has violated that sacred trust as well by defying the Word of Trump?

[itcfish]

33. Or as Pat Robertson Says

The Word of God

[Thrill]

19. Well he's the only sane one in the cabinet

[marybourg]

28. And HIS nick-name is "Mad Dog".

Kind'a gives you a rough idea of the sanity level of the rest of them.

[workinclasszero]

24. Yup Bannon is eager to get US troops on the ground..get that holy war heated up

Just remember guys save a bullet for yourself..you don't want to be taken prisoner by those ISIS scum.

I pity the poor folks in our military.

Bannon and Trump have an empire to build on their dead and broken bodies.

[Raine1967]

4. Here you go and I hope this helps!

Link to tweet

[wiggs]

5. Thanks to Trump/Bannon we now have to look at any administration

statement about russia through the lens of possible cover up of something worse, unseen.

Scripted media manipulation, as always with them. Not to be trusted on its face.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. THIS

always a grain of salt.

[Ilsa]

10. Says he won't work with Russia, sending in ground troops to Syria. nt

[Ilsa]

11. I wonder when Pres. Bannon will fire him? nt

[mfcorey1]

13. 10..9..8..7..

[JHan]

15. oh dear.

[Progressive dog]

16. He deliberately said the Russians attempted to interfere in

a number of elections in democracies without specifically saying in the United States. Hw also said no military cooperation "right now."
IMO that's a weak statement leaving lots of room for the psychopath to proceed forward with his murdering soulmate from Russia.

[dalton99a]

17. NEXT: "The Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, has betrayed the Department of Defense by refusing.."

[procon]

18. Trump doesn't have any actual foreign policies.

He sent Matiss out to freelance on his own and do whatever he thinks best. Trump doesn't have a clue about anything and he knows he's in way over his head so he's just winging it and delegating his presidential authority to whoever is in the room with him at the time.

[JHan]

20. +++++++++

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Trump has EVERY foreign policy

He is 100% for NATO (to UK PM May on camera at press conference).
He wants to destroy NATO if Matiss can't shake them down for money.

He wants to tweak trade treaties.
He wants to rip up NAFTA.

Every major issue he has taken both sides and sometimes three sides.

[Eyeball_Kid]

29. We saw Trumpy in action with Israeli foreign policy: One or two state solution?

For Trumpy, it's the same as, "One lump or two with your tea?" He doesn't give a shit. Go ahead, BiBi. Do what you want. I'll rubber-stamp anything you say.

The same is true with this news release from Mattis. Trumpy doesn't care what kind of policy is pushed by Mattis. He probably doesn't get it that Mattis is contradicting him! And worse yet, he doesn't care, as long as Trumpy doesn't take a PR hit.

[BeckyDem]

21. Trump and Putin are discussing military cooperation in Syria. Mattis says Russia must prove itself

BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday that Russia will need to “prove itself first” before the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are willing to let their armed forces collaborate — a complicating factor in cooperation that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have discussed adopting against the Islamic State in Syria.

Mattis, speaking at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, told reporters that U.S. and Russian leaders will engage politically, but said the conditions are not right presently for their forces to collaborate. The Pentagon and the Kremlin all but broke contact entirely in 2014, after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula prompted international outcry.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/02/16/trump-and-putin-are-discussing-military-cooperation-in-syria-mattis-says-russia-must-prove-itself-first/?utm_term=.a597e0eaaaee

[Eyeball_Kid]

30. Huh? Co-operation has to be proven???

Trumpy and Putin have been co-operating (on the US election and afterward) for months! What's the deal, Mad Dog? Don't you like that kind of co-operating? Trumpy wants to invite Putin to his Florida mansion for a card party, and you want proof of Russian co-operation?

I guess that Mattis can assist with Putin's invasion of the Baltics, since Putin is so chummy with the Trumpy White House.

Mattis either has to tell Trumpy and Bannon to STFU or he'll resign. This won't go well for the Mad Dog. He's up against a cabal of race war fanatics and fascists who want WAR with people of color and people of Islam, and who believe that Putin is of like mind.

[BeckyDem]

35. Mattis is setting the conditions with NATO, per the OP. That is one take from the

direction Trump wants to go with policy. I also see Mad Dogs statements as a buffer/buying time against what Trump may want to jump into with Putin in Syria.

[Ilsa]

37. Mattis us breaking wigh 45 because Mattis

understands more about how the russian military achieves its objectives. Mattis doesn't want the US charged with their war crimes, or US soldiers treated as collateral damage.

Maybe it's good thing that Mattis is not so far removed from his loyalty to the military.

[NCjack]

23. Tomorrow's News: [#45]: I regret that the lying fake

CNN and other news services have fired General Mattis because of a loss of confidence. That was totally unnecessary, but fake news and you the public have made it impossible for him to continue. All I can say is: don't watch CNN and other fakers.

[lagomorph777]

27. and wasn't my electoral college victory tremendous?

Seriously, they thought it would be maybe 220 tops, but I told Vlad to step on the gas and boy did he pull it off. So glad.

[Tragl1]

38. I'm worried about his NATO comments.

Also worried about the Syrian troop articles we are seeing in the media. This chaos coming from the White House and his appointments has to stop.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

43. So is president Bannon going to oppose president Mad Dog? nt

[jeanmarc]

44. This ruins the whole predicate for slurping on Putin

If Matiss won't work with Russia to crush ISIS, that ruins the reason for why Trump is kissing so much Putin butthole.

Or maybe it is that Putin has something on Trump...

Occam's Razor here.